Gallstones
Introduction of gallstones:
Gallstones are lumps of solid material that form in your gallbladder. They are made when the digestive juice called bile gets hard and stone-like. The gallbladder is a small organ under your liver. It stores bile made by the liver. Bile is made of several things such as cholesterol, bile salts, and a yellowish pigment (bilirubin).
Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a golf ball. Your gallbladder may form a single large stone, hundreds of tiny stones, or both sizes at the same time. In some cases, gallstones block the tubes that carry bile (bile ducts). This can lead to a life-threatening infections of the bile ducts, pancreas, or liver. Once you have had gallstones, you are at risk of having more.
There are 2 types of gallstones: cholesterol and pigment:
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